Notice! the rotting garbage-heap we have created, then Chrome-plated - yet who do not succumb to the self-pity of also..

Noticing.. umm Hey! this is where I live (too). Why *ME* gawd? {ugh}

I share your pessimism ('realism' - is what we call Our opinions ;-) especially in the dead-certainty that, 'we' shall buffer, rationalize, sweep-under ... otherwise obfuscate the fact of the wasteland which exists just below the Chrome-plated mall facade:

Until we are indeed existing on Soylent-S (guess..) and - all the turn-around time has been pissed away: in endless arguments about prayers in festering schools / abattoirs of the mind; debates about how Quickly (?) we ought to execute the neighborhood teen-age pot smoker - to save the cost of that 40 year prison term (for his 3rd reefer).

We may not agree on the epitaph.. but my first draft reads -


Species killed by terminal self-Righteousness and irreversible defacation in the nest. Cause: language murder.



Ashton
The Crimes of Il Papa can be an entertaining New thread, sometime.
So many escaped criminals - so little time...